blood in the halls

[ironymaiden]

i've been very careful about metering my exposure to US politics in the last four years. i never ignored what was happening, i only restricted how and when i caught up - so that i could work and sleep and not grow an ulcer.

today i broke and turned on the news. no work got done this afternoon, and tonight i'll probably be listening to the Senate and House until they finish confirming Biden. there have been some pretty epic speeches so far and i'm not *sure*, but i think that the rest of the results challenges are going to not happen or fizzle. lots of congresspeople talking about how they have changed their speeches and changed their thinking. good job traitors, you've scared off your political support.

at least Twitter has finally gotten off their asses. perhaps if they had acted sooner no one would have been hurt or died today.

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Good point about Twitter, but like the news media, Trump means bucks and eyeballs. I expect he'll stay in the news throughout this year despite being out of office.

[ironymaiden]

true. i was heartened that CNN played the Trump "you're special" video once as it was posted, and never seemed to mention its content again. we switched to MSNBC later and they didn't repeat anything he said or show any footage of him. four years ago it would have been on a loop every time there was a lull.

[jesse_the_k]

I attempted to live a total newsfast between 2016 and 2020 elections.

I'll confess I woke up at 2am (when my internet blocker for my phone rests) and doom scrolled metafilter for 2 hours.

I'm furious but not panicky.